The hospital was one of 18 in Michigan and 379 in the country to receive a Patient Safety Excellence Award from Healthgrades, reported as a for-profit company that provides consumer information on doctors and hospitals.

Healthgrades evaluated 4,789 hospitals and selected the award recipients based on which ones had the lowest occurrences in 13 of 14 serious, possibly avoidable complications and adverse events during the patient’s hospital stay during the time period of 2009-2011.

“Ultimately, patients simply want to know they will be safe in our care,” Georgia Fojtasek, president and CEO of Allegiance Health, said in a statement. “Being designated as one of the best in the nation in two areas—safety and clinical excellence—is a meaningful acknowledgement of the excellence of our staff and physicians, and it is exactly what the Jackson community deserves.”

According to the report, patients who were treated at these hospitals were 81 percent less likely to have a hip fracture following surgery; 80 percent less likely to have pressure or bed sores during their stay; and 70 percent less likely to get a catheter-related bloodstream infection during their stay compared to hospitals ranked at the bottom 5 percent in the nation.